True tales of the agrihood with Little Gay Garden, WCG Plant Sale

  • May 10, 2024
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Homegrown music from Fur Foxen. Plus, a Bridges Over Barriers refresh and Skywatcher Leo T.

Tonight's Punk Rock Farmer Friday edition of RadioACTive features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community!

Live music from Fur Foxen — original music for road tripping and whiskey sipping.

  • May 11: Fur Foxen EP Release Party, 7:00 p.m. at The Foxhole. Special Guest: Judason Void. Tickets $20. Venmo Amber: @a_pear77. 

#ManyCulturesOneSky with SkyWatcher Leo T, a RadioACTive volunteer-contributor who shares his love for the night sky, cultural tales of the constellations, and more during #PunkRockFarmerFridays. Tonight: The moon tours the planets in May. The Kon-Tiki sails across the pacific from Peru to the Polynesian Islands, clouds from Stratocirrus to Nacreous. Dark Cloud Constellations from aboriginal New Zealand and Australia!

RadioACTive's Connor Estes checks in with BOB, the Bridges Over Barriers art project. Amy MacDonald of Brolly Arts has a crew helping to refresh the murals under the overpass on 300 N. 700 W., SLC. The concrete on which the murals have been painted can't be sealed due to environmental requirements, so regular touchups are needed. 

  • May 14-15: BOB meet and greet, 2:00-4:00 p.m. each day. Come out and meet the artists touching up this community mural at 300 N. 700 W., SLC, as well as folks from NeighborWorks Salt Lake and the Salt Lake City Arts Council. 

SNEAK PEEK: Punk Rock Farmer Al talks with James Loomis for a sneak peek at tomorrow's annual spring plant sale for Wasatch Community Gardens. Be sure to stop by and say hello to Al at the KRCL booth!

  • Wasatch Community Gardens' Spring Plant Sale, 8a-1p at Rowland Hall-St Mark's School, 720 S. Guardsman Way, SLC. Rowland Hall-St Mark's School. "We know there are plenty of local plant sales this time of year so why shop WCG's Spring Plant Sale? Our sale features more than 45,000 food-growing plants raised from seed by participants of our Job Training Program serving women facing homelessness. These seedlings are grown with the utmost care at our certified organic Green Phoenix Farm. In other words, when you shop our Spring Plant Sale, you'll gift your garden with healthy plant starts while also helping us work toward our vision of a community where everyone has access to healthy, local food." 

Aldine's Urban Farm Report, featuring June Hiatt of Little Gay Garden, organically grown flowers cultivated with Pride by Queer Gardeners in SLC. 

Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of Listeners' Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Questions, comments, suggestions for the show? Email radioactive@krcl.org. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

  • Executive Producer, Host: Lara Jones
  • Volunteer Host: Aldine, KRCL's Punk Rock Farmer
  • Audio Team: Sullivan Phetchanpheng, Connor Estes

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